meiosis

[mai'əusis]

n.[生]细胞核减数分裂, 间接肯定法

词形变化

形容词: meiotic | 副词: meiotically | 名词复数: meioses |

英英释义

名词 meiosis:

(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

同义词：miosis, reduction division

understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

同义词：litotes

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